American Red Cross v. Palm Beach Blood Bank, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that an employer cannot preclude a former employee \from utilizing contacts and expertise gained during his former employment\ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• holding injunction was impermissibly vague where it broadly enjoined defendant’s use of plaintiff’s “lists or any other documents that contain trade secrets” without indicating “the types of information, ‘other’ than ‘lists,’” subject to the injunction
• finding that under Florida law, the claimant in a trade secret action bears the burden of demonstrating that the information it seeks to protect is a trade secret and that reasonable steps have been taken to protect its secrecy
• “In a trade secret action, the plaintiff bears the burden of demonstrating both that the specific information it seeks to protect is secret and that it has taken reasonable steps to protect this secrecy.”
• “In a trade secret action, the plaintiff bears the burden of demonstrating both that the specific information it seeks to protect is secret and that it has taken reasonable steps to protect this secrecy.”
• discussing the trade secret standard under Florida law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).